CSU names chancellor

Position goes to vice chairman of board of governors

2:32 AM,
May 6, 2009

Joe Blake

Written by

TREVOR HUGHES
TrevorHughes @coloradoan.com

CSU's Board of Governors is turning to one of its own to run the university system: Joe Blake, the board's vice chairman and president of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.

The Colorado State University Board of Governors met in a four-hour closed-door session Tuesday to interview two candidates for the chancellorship and ultimately selected Blake as the sole finalist by voice vote and without discussion. The lone dissenter in approving Blake's nomination was board member Tom Farley of Pueblo.

Several top lawmakers criticized the selection process as having too little public input, ...